 Volunteers Bob Nelson, Pastor Ed Wheatley and Matthew Kment, left to right, sort fruit being sold to raise funds for youth missions at two churches in Wyoming and one in Stacy. The fresh oranges and grapefruit are being supplied by Bruce Carlson, former Forest Lake City Council member from his 40-acre orchard in Texas. For more information on buying fruit to support the drive, contact St. Paul Lutheran Church in Wyoming at 651-462-5212, St. John’s Lutheran Church in Stacy at 651-462-5115 and Wyoming United Methodist at 651-462-5276 or visit one of the churches during regular weekly hours. John Freed has donated storage space in Forest Lake at his Forest Engineering building for the 10,000 pounds of fruit that arrived on Sunday night. (Photo By Cliff Buchan)
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Police in Forest Lake are awaiting the results of an autopsy to learn
the cause of death of a woman who was found in her vehicle in the I-35
Rest Area at 6 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 9.
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A fund has been established for fire victims at Haven Estates, a senior
citizen complex in Wyoming. Residents of 18 units of the complex lost
their homes late last month when fire broke out in a first floor unit
and spread to the unit above on the second floor. The building was
heavily damaged by fire forcing the 22 individuals who lived in the 18
apartment units to move.
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Employees in four bargaining units in the city of Forest Lake are now
working under a new three-year contract, but one group that was not
settled in 2009 will go to mediation.
The council approved new wage and benefit packages for 2010, 2011 and
2012 in a 4-0 vote during its regular meeting on Dec. 28. Councilwoman
Jackie McNamara abstained from the roll calls.
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Wednesday, Jan. 27 is the date for the public auction of the former Stock Building Supply property at 231 W. Broadway Ave. in Forest Lake. The 3.26 acre land parcel and nearly 45,000 square feet of buildings will go up for sale at 3 p.m. as part of the Stock asset liquidation tied to its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing last spring. The business operated for many years here as Inter-State Lumber Co. The company closed its Forest Lake lumber yard in August of 2007 and consolidated operations at a new facility just off Viking Blvd. (CR-22) in Cedar. That facility is one of 94 Stock operations to close during the past 12 months. Stock had been owned by London-based Wolseley with United States headquarters in North Carolina. In May of 2009, Wolseley announced an agreement with The Gores Group, LLC, an investment group, giving Gores a 51 percent stake in Stock Building Supply. Stock was then entered into a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. As part of its new business plan, the company will operate in 19 markets but not in Minnesota. I.R.A.Y. Auction, Foley, is in charge of the Forest Lake auction. It will conduct public inspections of the property on Jan. 13 and Jan. 20. For more information, call 877-968-7230 or 320-968-7230.
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An off-duty Forest Lake Police Department officer was seriously injured in a snowmobile crash Saturday night near Center City.
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 A snow-covered and slippery I-35 in Forest Lake was an accident magnet on Thursday morning. Chief of Police Clark Quiring said his officers were involved in a half dozen accident calls on southbound I-35 between US-8 and TH-97 in Columbus during a three-hour time span. One rollover, several spin-outs and a crash with the concrete center median were slowing traffic  on the freeway through Forest Lake, he said. "People need to slow down," the chief said of motorists who were driving too fast for the road conditions. City officers were assisting the Minnesota State Patrol. Forest Lake Fire and Rescue was paged out at 10:30 a.m. to help with a crash on southbound I-35 just north of TH-97. Strong winds and two to three inches of fresh, light snow were reported in the Forest Lake area.
The southbound corridor of I-35 between the local exits was jammed up Thursday morning as vehicles slipped off both shoulders.
(Photos by Clint Riese)
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